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Best Powdering Poems

Below are the all-time best Powdering poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of powdering poems written by PoetrySoup members


Merry Christmas
She stood at her window,
looking out on the world,
alone this Christmas,
this frightened young girl.

The night had come,
without making a sound,
as the snow began falling,
lightly powdering...

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Categories: powdering, family, hope, life, love,
Form: Narrative



Metamorphosed
Breezes brush through the window caressingly,
soft fanning wings powdering my skin;
night's black velvet pricked only by the porch light's glow.
Alone, I feel no fear. Gliding...

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Categories: powdering, change, death, freedom, life,
Form: Sonnet
Trash Collector
The corrosion of caring creeps up at last,
Rust all around your heart
As flakes of red-brown flutter, powdering down,
Filling the scavenger cart
Of ashes and dust from...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, lost love
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shadows Within the Blind Spot
Knowledge is the key in this modern world 
the truth can neither deceive nor be deceived 
a fractured coil has so many errors to put...

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Categories: powdering, blessing, christian, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Wild Atlantic Way
Wild Atlantic Way

The sea, slowly surging, crashing, claiming;
Waves endlessly corroding, consuming;
Rocks deeply wrinkling and age defacing;
Seaweed lashing as in a gale swirling.

The sky steaming, magically...

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Categories: powdering, nature,
Form: Quatrain



Feminine Skies
Pink powerful skies
Powdering the silent night
with femininity...

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Categories: powdering, night, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Trash Collector
The corrosion of caring creeps up at last,
Rust all around your heart
As flakes of red-brown flutter, powdering down,
Filling the scavenger cart
Of ashes and dust from...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, lost love
Form: Verse
Seeds
I am nothing but the names of the trees,
imprinted in my soft topography, 
recollections of sappy hands in yours
easing out splinters from our shared outdoors....

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Categories: powdering, appreciation, devotion, mother, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Midnight Castle Rendezvous
Swans........................
.play across the cattail towns,

laden down with white,

friendly fawns adept at dancing 

shallow stones...................

and on.........

into the climbing courtyard,

  Whisper where.......

and go there.......

not too far...

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Categories: powdering, love, passion, teen,
Form: Free verse
Rose-Crumbs
Flowers of fame
Bloom with your name
For a brief day,
Then wilt away.

Petals you clutch
Crush with your touch,
Powdering to
Dust before you....

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, on writing and words
Form: Verse
Women Celebrating Born Babies
Let me tell you what women do,
After a child’s delivery is through.
The birds, too, know: they jubilate 
While animated ones ululate!

Adoration of baby simply true,
Eyes...

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Categories: powdering, baby, birth, child, love,
Form: Rhyme
Boy and Barn
Bitty birds scuffle and flounce
under the roofed-in.
Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle.
Snuffle go the whiskered,
the mousy muzzle's
all along the bent beam wood.
A pepper powdering
in the...

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Categories: powdering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rose-Crumbs
Flowers of fame
Bloom with your name
For a brief day,
Then wilt away.

Petals you clutch
Crush with your touch,
Powdering to
Dust before you....

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, art
Form: Verse
Domestic Crime
Domestic crime

The couple was nicely suntanned, but the woman had
a black eye, he was very courteous to her, tried to hold 
her hand, she didn’t...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, abuse, anger,
Form: Sonnet
Trash Collector
The corrosion of caring creeps up at last,
Rust all around your heart
As flakes of red-brown flutter, powdering down,
Filling the scavenger cart
Of ashes and dust from...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: powdering, lost love
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs